Grundy County, IL Phoenix Advertiser Minooka News June 15, 1905 Vol. 30, No. 24 Markets - Corn 50; oats 29; butter 16; eggs 14. Miss Bessie COLLEPS visited in Joliet Monday. Miss Ellen CONNELL was a visitor in Joliet Monday. Miss Alta HARE visited in the county seat Monday. Michael WHALEN returned home from Lisbon Monday. Mrs. Charles COOP, who has been very ill, is much better. Mrs. Kate DUFFY, of Joliet, spent Sunday with relatives here. The Missess Mattie and Bessie COLLEPS were in Chicago Saturday. Grain is coming in at the rate of about forty loads a day this week. H. ANDERSON spent Sunday here with his wife and William COOP and family. Edward and Frank KREIN, of Chiport, spent Sunday here with their mother. Mrs. Theodore KREIN has been numbered with the sick for several days past. Miss May TINDER returned Sunday from Chicago where she had been spending the week. Miss Emma COOP has been taking care of her mother who has been quite sick the past week. Thomas HOLBROOK is getting the material on the ground for the erection of a new residence. The annual Children's Day exercises will be held in the M. E. church next Sunday evening, June 15. A large number from here attended the dance in Channahon Monday night and all report a good time. Miss Mabel CAMERON has returned to her home in Chicago after completing a term of school in the Henderson district. John BELL, of Moline, Ill., called on kindred and friends here last week. John is employed by the Rock Island at Moline. Elmer BRINCKERHOFF, of Lockport, who had been visiting his brother, Dr. J. J. BRINCKERHOFF and family, returned home Sunday. C. A. PETERSON departed last Saturday on a trip to Sweden, the land of his birth, and will there settle up his father's estate. Rumor says that there will be a Mrs. PETERSON to accompany the Minooka wanderer home. The Misses Franc and Lottie WATSON attended the commencement exercises of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago last week. Charles SCHMIDT, who is known by many here, is one of the graduates. The village board is grappling with the waterworks problem and the members hope to reach a definite solution within a few weeks which may prove satisfactory all around. The board has inspected the plant at Manhattan besides some other towns and is favorably impressed with the air compressor system. At Manhattan the plant includes two tanks, of the air compressor variety, each with a capacity of 12,000 gallons of water and half of the same quantity of compressed air. The water and air are both pumped into the tank and the air pressure of some 65 pounds furnishes the power for the distribution of the water in the mains. With this pressure water can be thrown over a building 75 feet high. This is the system which our village officials so far incline to. It would be necessary to sink one well and perhaps two and a 20-horse power gasoline motor would probably be used to operate the air and water pumps. With two tanks such as they have in Manhattan a supply of water for fighting fire could be furnished for two ordinary hose streams continuously for a period of four hours and one hose could be supplied indefinitely. The laying of the water mains would be a separate proposition. No estimate of the cost of a system has yet been secured but the board hopes to be able to invite bids in the near future and to get a contract let early in July. Minooka High School Commencement The seventeenth annual commencement exercises of the Minooka high school will occur Friday night, June 23, 1905, at 8 o'clock at Masonic hall. The graduates are the following: Elizabeth May COLLEPS, Kittie Viola COULEHAN, Henry Edward DEMPSEY, and Isabella Mary KINNEY. The class motto is: "non scholae sed vitae". The class colors are pink and green and the class flower the rose. The commencement program is as follows: Orchestra Essay - "Opportunity" - Isabella M. KINNEY Vocal Solo - Miss May McEVOY Reading - Miss Milllie G. FLUENT Orchestra Essay - "Death of Lincoln" - Elizabeth M. COLLEPS Vocal Solo - William F. McEVILLY Reading - Miss Martha D. COLLEPS Orchestra Essay - "Success" - Kittie V. COULEHAN Vocal Solo - Fenton McEVOY Violin Solo - Miss Jessie COLLINS Orchestra Essay - "Inventions" - Henry E. DEMPSEY Piano Solo - Raymond DAVIS Presentation of Diplomas - County Supt. C. H. ROOT Benediction - Rev. Wilmer JAGGARD Transcribed by Deb Haines, Grundy County, IL CC, December 6, 1998